Horizon 7 Instant Clones

Horizon 7 Instant Clones:

Horizon 7 Instant Clone is the long awaited technology build on VMware Fork technology that was presented at VMworld 2015. It require vSphere 6.0 U1 to clone a virtual desktop. VM’s now can be providioned in seconds.

CP-Parent: Parent will be created on each ESXi and always powered on. Using this VM Instant clones will be created using VMFork technology

Instant Clones: These VM’s will create in seconds and will be recreated (Deleted and Created) once user log off.

Requirement:

vSphere 6.0 Update 1 or later.

Virtual machine hardware version 11 or later.

Horizon Enterprise License

Limitations:

There are some limitations in the this release. For example, only floating desktops are supported. No dedicated desktops in this release. Also no RDSH or Apps support, only VDI. The scale is up to 2000 desktops with single vCenter, single vLAN only.

3D rendering / Nvidia GRID is not available and there is a limited SVGA options.

As a Storage options – there are VSAN or VMFS datastores . Virtual Volumes, VAAI, NFS or local datastores not supported.

You cannot specify a minimum number of ready (provisioned) machines during instant-clone maintenance operations. This feature is not needed because the high speed of creating instant clones means that some desktops are always available even during maintenance operations.

Parent VMs are tied to VMware ESXi host they are on and cannot be migrated or powered off through the vSphere (web) Client. This prevents an ESXi host from entering maintenance mode. Follow KB2144808 to put an ESXi host in maintenance mode.

Categories

Live Stats

Disclaimer:

The information in this blog is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights. This blog does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion.